Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 120

Price Realized: $ 975
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
EDDISON, E.R. Styrbiorn the Strong. Illustrated by Keith Henderson. 8vo, publisher's gilt-stamped navy cloth, fine; dust jacket crisp and clean; preserved in a custom 1/4 morocco felt-lined drop-back case. London: Jonathan Cape, (1926)

Additional Details

first edition with a 2-page als laid-in to addressed to an unknown gentleman. Eddison extends an invitation to a Stephen for dinner "at the Athenaeum at 7 P.M. on Monday 4th Dec (ordinary clothes - don't dress) and help to fill up this long gap since we met?" The letter is dated "29/XI/33." Written on recto and verso with tape ghosts to former and light foxing.